Luigi Zingales is a City Journal contributing editor and the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1992. His research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture. He is the author of A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity.

Zingales is currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Governance Institute. He is an editorialist for Il Sole 24 Ore, the most important economic newspaper in Italy, and for L’Espresso, a weekly magazine. Zingales also serves on the Telecom Italia’s board and on the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, which has been examining regulatory issues affecting financial markets.

In 2003 he won the Bernacer Prize for the best European young financial economist. In 2005-06 he held the prestigious Taussig Research Professorship at Harvard University. He has published extensively in the major economics and financial journals. A sample of his more recent research is available on his University of Chicago faculty page.

In 2003 he published with Raghuram Rajan a book entitled Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, which has been has been acclaimed as "one of the most powerful defenses of the free market ever written" by Bruce Bartlett of National Review Online. Together with Paola Sapienza, he has just launched the “Financial Trust Index,” an indicator of the level of trust Americans have in financial markets.

Zingales received a bachelor's degree in economics from Universita Bocconi in Italy in 1987 and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.

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Books

• A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity, June 2012

City Journal articles

• The Ryan Reset, 29 August 2012
• How Romney Can Win, 8 July 2012
• Who Killed Horatio Alger?, Autumn 2011
• The GOP’s Strongest Candidate, Summer 2011
• The GOP’s Strongest Candidate, 16 June 2011
• Dodging the Trump Bullet, 19 May 2011
• How to Improve the Financial-Reform Law, Winter 2011
• How to Improve the Financial-Reform Law, 23 November 2010
• Unpopular Financial Reform, 29 October 2010
• A Better Plan for Greece, 7 May 2010
• Is Strategic Default a Menace?, 27 April 2010
• The Menace of Strategic Default, Spring 2010
• Getting the TARP Tax Wrong, 25 January 2010
• An Economic Agenda for the GOP, Autumn 2009
• Stop Subsidizing the Street, Summer 2009
• A New Regulatory Framework, Spring 2009
• Wall Street 2015, 14 July 2009
• Stop Subsidizing the Street, 29 April 2009
• A New Regulatory Framework, 31 March 2009
• Anti-Trust America, 27 February 2009
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